New York University Bulletin 2015-2017 New York University Bulletin 2015-2017 Graduate School of Arts and Science Announcement for the 130th and 131st sessions New York University Washington Square New York, New York 10003 Website: www.gsas.nyu.edu Notice: The policies, requirements, course offerings, schedules, activities, tuition, fees, and calendar of the school and its departments and programs set forth in this bulletin are subject to change without notice at any time at the sole discretion of the administration. Such changes may be of any nature, including, but not limited to, the elimination of the school or college, programs, classes, or activities; the relocation of or modification of the content of any of the foregoing; and the cancellation of scheduled classes or other academic activities. Payment of tuition or attendance at any classes shall constitute a student’s acceptance of the administration’s rights as set forth in the above paragraph. Contents Graduate School of Arts and Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Spanish and Portuguese Science: Administration, Skirball Department of . 184 Languages and Literatures . 382 Departments, Programs . 5 History . 194 Study of the Ancient World, History of the Graduate School . 7 Institute for the . 396 Humanities and Social Thought, An Introduction to New York University. 8 John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Admission, Registration, Master’s Program in . 210 and Degree Requirements . .399 New York University and New York . 9 International Relations . 215 Financing Graduate Education . 404 Academic Calendar . 11 Irish and Irish-American Studies . 221 Services and Programs . 408 Departments and Programs Italian Studies . 226 Community Service . 411 Ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian Studies . 14 Journalism, Arthur L. Carter University Directory . 412 Journalism Institute Programs in . 232 Anthropology . 16 Degree and Certificate Programs Latin American and Caribbean as Registered by the State Art History . 27 Studies, Center for . 247 of New York . 414 Atmosphere Ocean Science, Library Science . 252 Schools and Colleges of Center for . 30 New York University . 418 Linguistics . 253 Basic Medical Sciences . 33 Mathematics . 259 Biology . 48 Middle Eastern and Chemistry . 58 Islamic Studies . 278 Cinema Studies . 63 Museum Studies . 283 Classics . 75 Music . 288 Comparative Literature . 82 Near Eastern Studies, Hagop Computer Science . 87 Kevorkian Center Program in . .294 Creative Writing . 100 Neural Science, Center for . .298 Culture and Media . 103 Performance Studies . .303 Data Science . 107 Philosophy . 310 East Asian Studies . 111 Physics . 319 Economics . 116 Poetics and Theory . 326 English . 128 Politics . 328 Environmental Health Sciences . 138 Psychology . 339 European and Mediterranean Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis . 355 Studies, Center for . 153 Religious Studies. 359 Fine Arts, Institute of . 156 Russian and Slavic Studies . 363 French . 163 Social and Cultural Analysis . 366 French Studies, Institute of. 173 Sociology . 374 German . 180 CONTENTS • GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCE • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 4 Administration, Departments, Programs ADMINISTRATION English Social and Cultural Analysis Professor Christopher Cannon, Chair Professor Jennifer Morgan, Chair Anna Harvey, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Interim Dean Institute of Fine Arts Sociology Professor Patricia L. Rubin, Director Professor Richard Arum, Chair Roberta S. Popik, B.A., M.S., Ph.D. Associate Dean for Graduate Enrollment French Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Services and GSAS Administration Professor Benoit Bolduc, Chair Literatures Associate Professor Georgina Dopico Kathleen T. Talvacchia, B.S., M.Ed., Ed.D. German Black, Chair Associate Dean for Academic and Professor Christopher Wood, Chair Student Affairs Hebrew and Judaic Studies David P. Giovanella, B.A., M.A. Professor David Engel, Chair INTERDISCIPLINARY Assistant Dean of Enrollment Services and History PROGRAMS Director, GSAS Master’s College Professor Barbara Weinstein, Chair Ancient Near Eastern and Catharine R. Stimpson, B.A.; B.A., M.A. Italian Studies Egyptian Studies [Cantab.], Ph.D.; hon.: D.H.L., Hum.D., Professor Virginia Cox, Chair Professor Ann Macy Roth, Director Litt.D., LL.D. of Graduate Studies Journalism Dean Emerita Professor Perri Klass, Director Ancient World Professor Robert Bagnall, Director Linguistics GRADUATE DEPARTMENTS Professor Chris Barker, Chair Atmosphere Ocean Science Associate Professor Shafer Smith, Director Anthropology Mathematics Professor Terry Harrison, Chair Professor Bruce Kleiner, Chair Basic Medical Sciences Senior Associate Dean Art History Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Joel D. Oppenheim, Director Professor Dennis Geronimus, Chair Professor Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Chair Creative Writing Biology Music Professor Deborah Landau, Director Professor Stephen J. Small, Chair Professor David Samuels, Chair Culture and Media Chemistry Neural Science Professor Faye Ginsburg, Director Professor James Canary, Chair Professor J. Anthony Movshon, Director Data Science Cinema Studies Performance Studies Professor S.R.S. Varadhan, Director Professor Antonia Lant, Chair Associate Professor Karen Shimakawa, Chair Environmental Health Sciences Classics Professor Max Costa, Chair, Department Professor David Levene, Chair Philosophy of Environmental Medicine Professor Don Garrett, Chair Comparative Literature European and Mediterranean Studies Professor Avital Ronell, Chair Physics Associate Professor Larry Wolff, Director Professor Gregory Gabadadze, Chair Computer Science French Studies Professor Denis Zorin, Chair Politics Professor Edward Berenson, Director Professor David Stasavage, Chair East Asian Studies Humanities and Social Thought Professor Eliot Borenstein, Chair Psychology Professor Robin Nagle, Director Professor Peter Gollwitzer, Chair Economics International Relations Professor Alessandro Lizzeri, Chair Russian and Slavic Studies Clinical Professor Michael Williams Professor Anne Lounsbery, Chair ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENTS, PROGRAMS • GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCE • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 5 Director Irish Studies Professor Joe Lee, Director Latin American and Caribbean Studies Professor Jill Lane, Director Library Science Professor Alice Flynn, Director (Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University) Museum Studies Professor Bruce J. Altshuler, Director Near Eastern Studies Professor Helga Tawil-Souri, Director Poetics and Theory Professor Jacques Lezra, Director Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis Professor Lewis Aron, Director Religious Studies Associate Professor Adam H. Becker, Director ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENTS, PROGRAMS • GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCE • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 6 History of the Graduate School Washington Square by Fernand Harvey Lungren (c.1890). Private Collection. Photograph courtesy of Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc. The Graduate School of Arts and Science life. He believed that the University’s Mirroring the cultural diversity of New was founded in 1886 by Henry Mitchell best interests lay in its interactions York City, the Graduate School of MacCracken, a professor of philosophy with the city. By the early 1900s, the Arts and Science is an urban, diverse, and logic, and vice-chancellor at New Graduate School had introduced courses and internationally focused major York University. concerned with major global issues, research center, with students from and the curriculum reflected movement more than 100 countries. The Graduate MacCracken believed that universities toward progressive values. School still honors the ideal expressed should respond to the needs of modernity by Albert Gallatin, the University’s by giving unprecedented priority to MacCracken’s new vision of graduate first president, who articulated the advanced research and professional training attracted ever-growing numbers institution’s primary goal: “A private training. New York University was of young women and men to doctoral university in the public service.” the second university in America to programs. The first female graduate award a Ph.D. on the basis of academic students entered the University in performance and examination. 1888. Today, women constitute over half of the 4,500 master’s and Ph.D. In addition to the emphasis on graduate students enrolled in 54 excellence in research, MacCracken departments and programs, as well as recognized the urban environment as in a growing number of institutes and both source and inspiration for academic interdisciplinary research areas. HISTORY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL • GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCE • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 7 An Introduction to New York University The founding of New York University university was to be a “national univer- University operates a branch campus in 1831 by a group of eminent private sity” that would provide a “rational and program in Rockland County at St. citizens was a historic event in American practical education for all.” Thomas Aquinas College. Certain education. In the early 19th century, of the University’s research facilities, The result of the founders’ foresight is a major emphasis in higher education notably the Nelson Institute of today a university that is recognized both was on the mastery of Greek and Latin, Environmental Medicine, are located nationally and internationally as a leader with little attention given to modern or in Sterling Forest, near Tuxedo, New in scholarship. Of the more than 3,000 contemporary subjects. The founders of York. Although overall the University colleges and universities